Although the male and female protagonists of the 1930s version are not so beautiful, they have the spirit of the original, especially the British humor and simplicity, set off by the black and white images, are very in line with Bernard Shaw's ridiculous and sharp style. The story is very honest, but lacks moving colors, especially the heroine seems so ordinary that we can't believe that she will suddenly change after a short period of practice, because the old-school British actress is wearing it after all After the elegant long skirt, it is still so mediocre. However, Howard plays a very boring professor, which fits the character of the original book.
In fact, the biggest difference between version 30 and version 60 is who is the film, that is, the protagonist in the story of Pygmyrian.
Eliza is still a professor.
According to Bernard Shaw's own vision, the flower girl ran away angrily and became a professional woman after she discovered that she had been used as a bet. The endings of the two films both ended with her returning to the professor.
Feminists would say that this is an essential difference.
From a traditional perspective or as a pure audience, it is hoped that women will return to men. This ending is in line with most people's expectations even today.
The ending is warm, but also a bit embarrassing. After all, the professor got a cheap maid and wife. It seems that everything he did has a reasonable explanation.
So in version 30, the protagonist is a man.
The man is the focus of the story and the film, and the woman is the foil. So when watching this version of the movie, we were obviously implied that this is a story of a man conquering a woman. A work that has a subtle fit with Shakespeare's Taming the Shrew.
But in the 60th version, the protagonist of the story is a woman.
George Gu Ke is the Pig Million of the American film industry.
His films are about goddesses, Catherine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Fe Wenli, and Joan Crawford. Under his lens, he is a brilliant screen goddess. He understands women, appreciates women, and praises women. He is a master who really understands female psychology.
Therefore, in his movies, women are the protagonists, even though he likes to arrange mature and stable male actors around these women as flower protectors, but women are the protagonists.
For this reason, Geb made the producer fire him midway and replaced him with Fleming to guide Gone with the Wind, so as not to let Fei Wenli's brilliance overwhelm him.
Of course, the protagonist of this film is Audrey Hepburn.
It's Eliza.
The gorgeous colors, gorgeous costumes, and brisk scenes are all to highlight a goddess who is about to be born.
Hepburn is certainly beautiful and elegant, but this feature makes her lack of interpretation of the flower girl. I believe that Julie is more suitable than her.
Because Hepburn really lacks the temperament of a true bottom woman.
As a woman from a run-down noble family, Hepburn always belonged to the upper class from which she was born, and she also respected the laws of this class throughout her life. She only chooses those elegant and educated gentlemen to be her partners and friends. Her taste has always been the vane of the upper class in Europe and America. Like Mrs. Kennedy, she is a true lady, even if she is wearing maid clothes. Her natural elegance.
And Eliza is vulgar, a lower-class girl, even though she has obtained the key to upper class society through her studies, she is still a civilian girl in her bones.
It's just that she gained the love of an intellectual man from it.
Hepburn is Hepburn. Only she can wear the magnificent and exaggerated costumes designed by the noble Beaton and not look vulgar. If she is changed to Julie, she will be like a clown.
What we saw and liked was not Eliza, but the lovely Audrey.
Her films will always be fashion teaching materials first, love stories second, and a little artistry at the end.
Rex Harris' eyes always reminded me of the eyes of a man I once met.
The kind of sharp, humorous, see-through, and ridiculous eyes that only mature and mature men have.
Under such eyes, a woman will often take off all her disguise and become a little girl, at a loss in front of him.
At least I don't dare to be willful and lie under this kind of gaze.
The eyes seemed to say, "Don't make a woman's suit with me, I don't want to eat this."
Rex is the king.
He also only plays the king.
He has a kind of natural king style, and his military career during World War II gave him a rational demeanor under the majesty, so the professor he played does not seem to be a staid scholar, the one in our mind A fragile and swaying British man, but a nobleman with a powerful sword in the field. Although he sang and danced in this extravagant American movie, and brought his humor to the fullest, his masculine style really can't be compared with Howard's gentle manner. It can be said that his temperament without anger and prestige has made a beneficial balance for the film, which not only balances Hepburn's aging appearance, but also dilutes the frivolous atmosphere of the film and reduces the feminine characteristics.
In fact, the professor's love for Eliza is more a mixture of jealousy and habit. In a man's feelings for a woman, if there is no jealousy, it is not true love. Vanity and jealousy are an important part of a man's love. Just as fantasy and dependence are women's love.
A woman can be shaped by a man, and most of the woman will fall in love with this man out of gratitude, but a woman can never change a man.
One of the many mistakes a woman makes is trying to change a man.
A man can grow up through a woman, but he will abandon that woman after he grows up.
Female students can fall in love with male teachers, but male students are only seduced by old female teachers.
The former is often a love story outside the window, while the latter is often a scandal.
Therefore, whether in reality or art, it is acceptable for men to shape women, but it is always weird and helpless for women to shape men.
Mr. Darcy of Austin will always be in her book, he will never become a real person and walk down.
Men can turn their dreams into reality, while women's dreams are always just dreams.
Many women blame Eliza for the ending, and are dissatisfied with the last line of the professor in the last scene of the film, thinking that this is a full-fledged man's thinking.
I think women are nothing more than two kinds, one is looking for a father, the other is looking for a son. Anyway, I can't find a real friend-a man.
Father-seeking women are very malleable. They obey the authority of men. They are willing to enjoy themselves in this unfree but secure relationship. They are willing to let men shape themselves and become their nanny and nanny. Female companion. She can only fall in love with men by admiring men.
If this worship disappeared, she would no longer love him.
Therefore, the husband of this kind of woman must always be in a dominant position like Higgins, maintaining a sense of security that women can't figure out but relying on themselves because of the security given by this mystery and authority.
A woman who looks for a son can dominate men as she pleases and become the queen of the family. Everything is done, turning men into useless waste. They are usually very capable. She has to intervene in everything from the color of men's underwear to the pattern of ties, from family disputes to company personnel. Only in this kind of labor can she have a sense of accomplishment, turning her husband and son into good babies, and turning herself into an old hen. Her ambition is to shape men.
But the results are usually not so good. Both her husband and son bother her, but they hate him even more because they can't live without her. She often ends up being very lonely.
In the relationship between men and women, what is interesting is that they both talk to themselves, or they are one-sided. It is almost a dream to form a complete and equal communication relationship.
I saw a survey on the Internet, and it turned out that most men actually said that what they admire most is still kind, beautiful and virtuous women, and what they hate most is women with personality.
Today's society is said to be equal between men and women. It seems that women have gained a lot of room for development, but men are still so conservative in their bones, which really makes people doubt the end of women's liberation.
Where are my slippers?
Where are my socks?
Where is the card for paying the electricity bill?
He never knows where these things are.
It's not that you can't help but you don't know on purpose, because you, a maid, should know.
Slender lady, beautiful maid.
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